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Stroud Hospitals League of Friends is seeking a new part-time Administrator following the imminent retirement of the current post holder. Please email info@stroudleagueoffriends.org for job description and person specification. Closing date for applications:  by email...

The Board of Trustees of Stroud Hospitals League of Friends is delighted to announce that Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal has kindly agreed to become Patron of Stroud Hospitals League of Friends.  This royal patronage is effective from October 2017.  “This is a...

Popular volunteer, Janet Smith, stepped down from her role as Refreshment Shop Manager this week.  She has been a volunteer for many years and has spent over 10 years as the Refreshment Shop Manager at Stroud General Hospital, ordering stock and making sure that the...

Very grateful thanks to the musicians from Frampton-on-Severn Silver Band and to the members of the Stroud Hospitals League of Friends, their families and all who came along to the Stroud General Hospital on Sunday 17 December to spread good cheer providing Christmas...

A very festive and sociable Christmas coffee morning was held last week at Stroud General Hospital to thank all the hospital volunteers who are involved in working on the wards, the trolley service and refreshment shop, on reception and as volunteers on the Hospital...

St Laurence Church, situated in The Shambles, Stroud, has hosted twelve very successful Community Christmas Tree Festivals in December, every year since 2005!  They had 30 trees in their first year, and it has grown since then so that they now regularly have over 135...

The League of Friends congratulates seven Healthcare Assistants (HCAs) from Stroud General and the Vale Community Hospitals, who have recently been awarded Care Certificates. The group have been part of a 12 week training and development programme, learning the skills...

Very many thanks to everyone who attended the Annual Hospital Church Service which was held at Holy Trinity Church, Stroud on Sunday 15 October 2017. NHS staff, members of the League of Friends, volunteers from Stroud General Hospital as well as hospital supporters...

A very pleasant event recently was the unveiling of a plaque to name the John Fairgrieve Clinic which is the complex leg wound clinic based at Stroud General Hospital. The event was attended by John Fairgrieve’s widow, Mrs Drusilla Fairgrieve, two of his daughters,...

Many thanks to everyone who came along to the Stroud Hospitals League of Friends Annual General Meeting at the Subscription Rooms on Wednesday 13th September with our President, Dr Roy Lamb, in the Chair. All seats were taken to listen to our Guest Speaker, Mr James...

Stroud Hospitals League of Friends would like to invite people to join us at our Annual General Meeting on Wednesday 13 September 2017 at the Subscription Rooms, Stroud.  The meeting begins at 7.30 p.m. with our special guest, Mr James Bristol MD FRCS, Consultant...

After months of digging, weeding, planting and nurturing, the team behind the Independence Trust gardening project at Weavers Croft site in Stroud has declared the centre’s new-look garden officially open. Weavers Croft is the base in Stroud for teams who treat and...